A color-separation portrait of the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens, Greece, made during the anti-austerity protests in late 2011. In a place thick with stray cats and scooters, cops and Molotovs, ancient myths and new ruins; where fists are raised like so many columns in the Parthenon. This is a film of surfaces – of grafittied marble streets and wheat-pasted city walls – hand-processed and triple-exposed in red, green, and blue.
Guillaume Cailleau, born 1978 in France, lives and works in Berlin.
Ben Russell, born in 1976 in the USA, lives and works Paris.
Format: 16 mm
Running time: 8 min
